![]() ![]() ![]() There are plenty of positive things about Dickens that we can take away from this biography: his incredible energy, his literary talent and the amount of hard work and effort he was prepared to put in to achieve his ambitions. One of the things I liked about Tomalin’s Samuel Pepys book was the way she attempted to give us a balanced view of Pepys, looking at both his good points and his bad points, and she does the same here with Dickens. Charles Dickens is an ideal subject for a biography as he had such an eventful life and career. It took me a long time to finish it but that’s just because I was reading other books at the same time and is no reflection on how much I was enjoying it. I’ve only read one of Claire Tomalin’s other biographies ( Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self) but having read that one, Charles Dickens: A Life was everything I was expecting: well researched, thorough and very readable. ![]()
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